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English helps lift D-Backs to playoff victory

Sentinel & Enterprise

Updated:
07/16/2014 06:33:26 AM EDT

Austin English drove in what proved to be the winning run, leading the Whitton's Realty Diamondbacks to an 8-6 win over Proctor Excavating on Monday in the Central Mass. Baseball league's 13- and 14-year-old playoffs.

Mike Viola hit into a fielder's choice to get on base in the sixth. He then went from second to third on an RBI single by Nick Cole.

The top of the first saw the Phillies take an early 3-0 lead. They scored one run in the seventh, but it wasn't enough to erase the deficit.

On Saturday, the Diamondbacks rode a big fifth inning to earn an 11-1 playoff win over the Clinton Savings Bank Gamecocks.

The Diamondbacks scored in the fifth, highlighted by an RBI single by English and a two-run single by Reid Losey. Viola was perfect on the day, going 3 for 3.